The goal is to improve efficiency at Wright-Patterson by moving these employees back into the “front lines” of the base’s acquisition operations, officials said. The Center for Systems Engineering’s primary mission has been to provide consulting expertise to the Air Force acquisition community, base officials said.
The shift is part of the Air Force’s ongoing effort to improve efficiency, cut costs and, in some cases, eliminate positions in response to the Pentagon’s mandate to reduce spending during the next decade.
The Air Force Institute of Technology, located at Wright-Patterson, is the service’s post-graduate school and does technology research.
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